This preschool lesson plan will help you teach children in daycare about the colors blue and red. The activities below will introduce children to the red and blue through a science activity, a dramatic play activity, a cooking and snack activity, a circle time activity, a music and movement activity and books. For each activity you will find the materials, instructions and discussion starters (verbal cues). This lesson plan works well in conjunction with kindergarten readiness lesson plans in your daycare center .
Science
Mixing Primary Colors
Materials: Paper plates, red paint, blue paint, yellow paint, paint stir sticks
Discussion Starters: We are going to use paint to explore how colors mix to create new colors. Can you mix the blue paint with the red paint? What color does it make?
Instructions: Give each child a small amount of red and blue paint. Encourage the students to mix the colors on a paper plate and observe the results. Next, repeat with red and yellow paint and then blue and yellow paint. Together, create one chart to show the results.
Dramatic Play
Fire Station
Materials: Red firefighting clothes (hats, boots, coats), hose, empty refrigerator box, red paint, steering wheel, chairs, siren, red revolving light
Discussion Starters: What colors did we see at the fire station? What colors are fire trucks? What color is fire? What does a fireman do?
Instructions: Set up a fire station in the dramatic play area or outside. Create a red fire truck out of a large refrigerator box painted red. Children can take turns driving the fire truck and responding to emergency calls.
Cooking and Snack
Blueberry Pops: Allow children to add one pint blueberries, ¼ cup sugar, and 1cup nonfat milk to a blender. Puree until smooth. Next add one cup of vanilla nonfat yogurt. Blend and then pour into Popsicle molds. Insert Popsicle sticks and freeze for 3 hours or until set.
Circle Time
Deep Blue Ocean Sensory Table
Materials: Sensory table or tub, water, sand, seashells, shovels, buckets, strainers, plastic ocean animals.
Discussion Starters: What color is the ocean? What other blue things do we find in the ocean? How does the sand feel between your fingers?
Instructions: Put sand and water in the sensory table or a large plastic tub. Add seashells and plastic ocean animals. Let the children take turns digging for seashells and sea animals and feeling the texture of the sand.
Music and Movement
A Boat is Going Sailing
Discussion Starters: We are going to sing “A Boat is Going Sailing” What things can you take on a boat? What things can you not take on a boat?
Instructions: Teach the children the song “A Boat is Going Sailing”. Let the children insert things that can or cannot be taken on the boat.
“A Boat is Going Sailing”
A Boat is going sailing
A boat is going sailing,
A pretty boat of blue.
Blue boat, blue boat,
A __________ can go with you.
A boat is going sailing,
A pretty boat of blue.
Blue boat, blue boat,
A ________ can’t go with you.
Story Circle
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss and Theodor Seuss Geisel
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